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Covering the White House for CNN

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Joined August 2010

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  1. Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports.

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  2. Pence says he won’t accept his raise if the government is still shut down. He and several Cabinet secretaries are scheduled to get one tomorrow.

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  3. Asked if he’s still proud to own this shutdown, Trump says he’s not calling it a shutdown.

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    “I did. Absolutely I said that.” Trump, asked by if he suggested the shutdown could last a year or more.

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    Trump now suggests a steel wall instead of a concrete wall

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  6. President Trump says a group — doesn’t say who — will be meeting to discuss the shutdown this weekend. He says the meeting was productive and that they’re all on the same page about wanting to reopen it. Pelosi and co. did not sound as optimistic.

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  7. President Trump is speaking in the Rose Garden now. He was seen writing something at the Resolute Desk before walking out to reporters gathered here. He’s talking about the jobs report now.

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  8. Chuck Schumer says President Trump told him he’s prepared to keep the government shut down for months or even years.

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  9. If you're going to say the president should be impeached, you should be prepared to take questions from reporters.

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  10. The White House is planning on having President Trump appear in the Rose Garden after his meeting with congressional leaders, reports. A White House official says he wants a chance to re-do his briefing room appearance. This will be after Pelosi and Schumer speak.

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  11. "The pay raises for cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, top administrators and even Mike Pence are scheduled to go into effect beginning Jan. 5, according to documents issued by the Office of Personnel Management and experts in federal pay."

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    Fed Chair Jerome Powell, asked by if he would resign if President Trump asked him to: "No."

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  13. U.S. businesses added 312,000 jobs in December, well above what economists expected & underlining that the economy remains strong despite recent market turbulence. The unemployment rate rose to 3.9% as more people were looking for work.

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  14. Congressional leaders are slated to return to the White House today for another shutdown meeting. The last time they were in the Situation Room with President Trump, the latest letter from Kim Jong Un made an appearance.

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    Vice President Mike Pence: "If there's no wall, there's no deal" to end the partial government shutdown

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  16. Jan 3

    Sarah Sanders says President Trump spoke to the family of the California police officer who was shot and killed. The man suspected of killing Ronil Singh was in the country illegally, according to the Stanislaus County sheriff. (The White House spells his name wrong here.)

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  17. Jan 3

    It was on this day 12 years ago that Alabama hired Nick Saban. The following spring, 92,000 people showed up to watch a scrimmage in Bryant-Denny. "There is something special about this place," Saban said that day in 2007. "It was ... emotional."

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    Jan 3

    ALERT ... PELOSI invited to give state of the union January 29.

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  19. Jan 3

    "The outburst at the far end of the Situation Room table did little to quell the sense among both White House officials and Democratic aides that the stalemate is nowhere close to being resolved."

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    Jan 3

    5 eyes. 5 arms. 4 legs. All American. Welcome to Congress, & .

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